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Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by threeseed »

hadrien01 wrote: post #7
traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

It seems to be very clearly as a temporary beta: https://www.mignori.com/beta/

10 months doesn't sound all that temporary.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by coder1001 »

Startup idea for anyone who is interested:

Paid customer service where the customer pays money (say $100-$1k depending on how serious the issue is) and each company can have a special channel to respond to these paid requests and be compensated (say 80% of the fee the customer pays). That way companies will have the will and ability to attend to serious issues and filter them out from the "useless" customer requests that flood any large size business.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by bluesign »

traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

Yeah probably this can be related considering "Mignori 3 was published on TestFlight in 2017 and Apple approved it."

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by echelon »

bsaul wrote: post #9

This kind of post infuriates me. As an iOS developer for 10 years, i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed. It's now so bad people are refraining from trying out innovative business model or apps just because they think there could be a chance someone at apple validation wouldn't li…

If Apple doesn't back down, they should be broken up by the DOJ into a phone/hardware company and an iOS/Mac/Services company.

The same should happen to Google with search, Chrome, and Android. You can't use dozens of entire markets as your product moat.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by spzb »

traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

That sounds plausible. He claims to have 200 beta users without having been through app review. TestFlight only permits 25 internal testers [1] (you can have 10,000 external testers but the app has to go through review first). Something smells off.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/testflight/

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by bad_user »

traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

Author says that he develops app in his free time, did not have time to push it to app store properly and that he has 200 beta testers. Apps with a public invitation link for testing are common and if the delay is the problem here, then Apple should have said so.

What's completely unacceptable here is that Apple does not specifically say what the author did wrong and this can't be defended by apologists.

What is surprising or not coming from Apple is irrelevant, stop normalizing this abusive behavior from app store gate keepers.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by RubenvanE »

traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

But to what extent is it 'publicly distributing' when the app has only 200 users. It sounds more like an extended beta than a 'clever' way to circumvent the app review process.

And, as the author extensively explains, the major sin of Apple is not that they removed the app from Testflight, but that threaten to suspend his developer account completely and give no explanation _why_, even after multiple attempts of the author to reach out to Apple to solve this situation.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by aboringusername »

threeseed wrote: post #11
hadrien01 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to be very clearly as a temporary beta: https://www.mignori.com/beta/

10 months doesn't sound all that temporary.

Games on early access can be there for years...Software can remain on beta for the same duration too depending on how the developer feels.

We see terrible software all the time now because it's rushed to GM because that's what you need to do, apparently.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by p49k »

spzb wrote: post #16
traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

That sounds plausible. He claims to have 200 beta users without having been through app review. TestFlight only permits 25 internal testers [1] (you can have 10,000 external testers but the app has to go through review first). Something smells off. [1] https://developer.apple.com/testflight/

The author states in the article that it did go through review.
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